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- EIN 13-3167013
- (213) 481-2273
- 1238 W 1st St Los Angeles CA 90026-5831 USA
- http://www.shakespearecenter.org/
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts Services, Performing Arts
Mission: To enchant, enrich and build community through professional theatrical traditions that are to enchant, enrich and build community through professional, theatrical traditions that are enterpretively, geographically and economically accessible to all.
Programs: Main stage (also known as summer festival) is a professional, outdoor, critically acclaimed, union-contracted summer production. Part of the main stage programming, veterans in art hires military veterans to fill positions in the main stage production. These jobs may include design, performance, production crews, marketing, and front of house. Veterans in art also provides military veterans free tickets to the organization's performances. Other veterans programming includes performances and workshops.
youth and education programs includes will power to youth, will power to schools, and play on. Will power to youth and play on hire teens and young adults to create adaptations of shakespeare that reflect their thoughts, feelings, and perspectives on shakespeare's themes. Will power to schools partners with classroom teachers to provide professional development, live performances, and in-classroom workshops.